Appliances Reverse Logistics Model

This article researches the model of household appliance's reverselogistics according to the logical sequence of "what-why-how".The former part mainly answers the question about what is householdappliance's reverse logistics and why implements it. Through researching theacademic fruit of this field, the author expatiate the basic concept of reverselogistics and its network design methods. Then, the characteristics and drivenfactors of household appliance are specified on the next part.The latter part of this thesis talks about the material model of householdappliance reverse logistics. In this part, the author mentions that householdappliance enterprise should be the center of its reverse logistics system. Afterthat, the thesis establishes the model of network design by mixed integerlinear programming. From this model, not only the final network designdecision can be concluded but also we can see the difference between forwardand reverse logistics. Finally, the author analyses some difficulties ofimplementing reverse logistics and gives the suggestions about how topromote the development of the household appliance's reverse logistics fromthe government, enterprise and consumers respectively.